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A 12-year-old boy was hospitalized after a tractor accident that happened Friday evening.

According to the Taylor County Sheriff's Office, Ethan Reliford was traveling north on Lemons Bend Road on a John Deere tractor at about 5:15 p.m., when a tire dropped off the right shoulder of the road.

He pulled back onto the road, overcorrected, left the right side of the road and overturned as the tractor went over an embankment into a field, a TCSO report said.

A Taylor County man is in jail after being charged with kidnapping and numerous other charges in an incident that took place across at least three counties Thursday.

Marion Fisher, 34, of Taylor County, is lodged in the Boyle County Detention Center in Danville, Ky. Fisher was arrested after a lengthy incident, according to a report from the Boyle County Sheriff's Office.

Taylor County Public Library's local version of the TV show "Chopped!" was an unqualified success, library officials said.

Kathy Harden and Sami Hollingsworth won Saturday's competition with their tapas.

TCPL Adult Programming Librarian Jessie Harden said the library is going to do this again next year. She also said they'll likely put on a version for young adults and/or children next month or in the fall.

A new industry could possibly be moving to Taylor County in the not-too-distant future, Campbellsville Mayor Tony Young said Monday evening.

"This City Council and Fiscal Court met together, and they are unified in moving forward in our attempts to recruit and be able to bring in new industries to our community," Young said. "We have one company that ... we're hoping they will decide to move here to Campbellsville."

"Drug court doesn't work for everybody," said Jennifer Caulk, who works for the drug court program serving Taylor County. "If you're not willing to say, 'I have a drug problem and I need help,' this is what drug court is about, no matter what your charge is."

When the new school year begins, most parents in the county and city school districts will notice some savings when it comes time to pay for student lunches.

That's because this year, while students enrolled in Campbellsville Independent Schools will continue to receive free breakfast and lunch, many students in the Taylor County School District will also receive those same benefits.

There could be as much as a 15-20-percent yield loss countywide for tobacco, mostly because of the rains.

Pat Hardesty, Taylor County extension agent for agriculture and natural resources, said that while some fields won't produce as much, overall there will likely be "solid" yields this year, especially with regard to corn and soybeans.

"We have tobacco ... some of it got drowned out from too much water in different patches," Hardesty said. "We also have some bacterial soft rot in some patches."

Despite precarious weather condition, volunteers with Kentucky Heartland Outreach were able to help homeowners throughout Taylor and Green County last week.

Formed as a result of a dream of the current president of Campbellsville University, Dr. Michael V. Carter, Kentucky Heartland Outreach seeks to provide safe, warm and dry homes to homeowners throughout south central Kentucky who could otherwise not afford such needed home repairs.